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TARDIS Guide

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Released

March 1999

Written by

Dave Stone

Pages

33

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Future

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Earth

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Dave Stone is a writer I’m always very mixed on and “Moon Graffiti” is just a Dave Stone story that doesn’t work for me.  Now, before I go into detail, this is one that may work well for someone who is a Dave Stone fan, it has all the hallmarks of his work.  The prose is incredibly dense and the ideas surrounding it are largely in the absurd, though the short story format feels incredibly limiting for an author who even in novel format feels limited.  It’s also very possible that this story works better when performed by Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as it was originally released about six months before the publication of More Short Trips in the audio anthology Out of the Darkness.  The concept is just as absurd as you’d expect from stone, the setting is a desolate Earth in the far future and the Sixth Doctor and Peri have to fight off the Pararachnid alien threat, with several supporting characters along the way while there is another group of aliens stranded on Earth called the Wibliwee, plus a third group called the Monitors.  Again this is too convoluted for a short story, even with Stone making the story one of the longer ones, but so much of it feels like it’s mean to be read by Baker and Bryant.  Reading it makes it quite difficult to take in everything that is being said, but I can easily imagine hearing it makes it feel more like you’re listening to an audio drama or being told an actual story, it just didn’t work for me in this format.  4/10.


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